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Cloud service management for cloud providers

Five tips to mitigate the risk of a cloud outage

Selling cloud-based services? These five tips can help service providers mitigate the risk of a cloud outage. Continue Reading
Cloud storage prices: Avoid turning your MSP business into a commodity

Managed services providers face a lot of pressure to cut cloud storage prices, but doing so may turn their business into a commodity and devalue their services. Continue Reading
Cloud APM services win customer trust by monitoring app performance

Acceleration is just one facet of cloud performance services. Application performance management (APM) services that focus on monitoring are another avenue for providers. Continue Reading
MSPAlliance: Cloud certification, audit brings order to chaotic market

Not all clouds are created equal, but there should be equality for a cloud certification among providers, says MSPAlliance CEO Charles Weaver in this guest column. Continue Reading
Remote monitoring and management tools selection tips for solution providers

An IT solutions provider shares his tips for selecting a remote monitoring and management tool for your channel services business, as well as some of his favorite features in Managed Workplace 2011. Continue Reading

Selling facilities monitoring as a service: A network operator's guide

Offering facilities monitoring as a service could prove lucrative for network operators. Find out what makes a facilities monitoring service framework successful. Continue Reading
Application performance management as a service: What does it take?

Traditional network monitoring is fast morphing into application performance management, a growing market segment targeting enterprise users that has service possibilities for the telecom carrier, but only if the right vendor partnerships and ... Continue Reading
Offering cloud computing security services to customers

There's no doubt that cloud computing is becoming a huge opportunity for security professionals. But VARs can help customers ensure that their data is secure in the cloud by offering cloud computing security services to customers. Find out what can ... Continue Reading

Analyst argues blockchain has no place in networking

Blockchain distributed ledger technology is untested, unproven and overly complex, making it unsuitable for networking, ...

Marketing for MSP companies: Still a struggle

While managed service providers continue to struggle with marketing, the list of vendors committing to the channel sales model ...

Expect 5G infrastructure to generate new wave of channel opportunities

It's time to think about 5G. The widespread rollout of 5G infrastructure is likely to create new prospects for channel-provided ...

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Millennial tech buyers forcing channel to change sales approach

Fresh research indicates changing attitudes to tech purchasing, and how the channel must adapt accordingly

Cofense chooses to go 100% indirect

Security player revamps partner programme as it pledges to go 100% through the channel

How Kognitio mined the reality gap on London bus time tables

The work was inspired by TfL’s open data policy and could spark ideas in other channel partners Nick Booth argues

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5G service lifecycle automation may be key to business cases

Network operators need a 5G service lifecycle automation roadmap that leads to revenue-producing business cases to make the ...

Operators invest billions, hope in 5G wireless technology

A new 5G wireless technology report breaks its development into three phases, and network operators hope their investments lead ...

Three-step network strategy sells big changes as more doable

A three-pronged network strategy takes an evolutionary approach to selling revolutionary technology changes internally, with a ...

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Amazon FreeRTOS aims to simplify, secure IoT deployment

Operational technology teams have been slow to update microcontroller software due to safety and logistics concerns, but Amazon ...

Test your knowledge of GDPR rights and AWS data protection

Is your enterprise GDPR-compliant? Take this quick quiz to test your knowledge of the EU regulation, as well as relevant AWS data...

Support for Node.js in AWS Lambda slowly, but surely, evolves

Developers who need the latest version of Node.js for a serverless platform might turn to Lambda rivals to meet that need. But ...

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Cloud survey uncovers seven storage services trends

Latest TechTarget cloud survey finds cloud backup, cloud file sync and share, disaster recovery and archiving are most popular ...

Survey finds cloud storage implementation growing but cautious

Cloud storage implementation by users ranges from backup and DR to tiering. We reveal the most-used cloud storage applications ...

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Assistant Editor Rachel Kossman tweets links to our content, as well as analysis from industry experts. Interact with her, let us...

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IaaS and PaaS blurred lines increase lock-in risks

There are three distinct cloud service categories: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. However, IaaS and PaaS are getting a little too close, ...

Single pane of glass for multi-cloud management still elusive

Unified management for multi-cloud remains a work in progress. Vendors have yet to produce the perfect single-pane-of-glass tool ...

Microsoft takes holistic approach to IoT security concerns

Azure Sphere extends security from the cloud to the device. It's the most holistic approach on the market and provides another ...

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How enterprises should handle GDPR compliance in the cloud

GDPR compliance in the cloud can be an intimidating concept for some enterprises, but it doesn't have to be. Rob Shapland ...

Compromised cloud credentials still plaguing enterprises

Why are enterprises still struggling with identity and access management in the cloud? Experts at RSA Conference discuss the ...

How TLS mutual authentication for cloud APIs bolsters security

Secure access to cloud APIs is necessary but challenging. One viable option to combat that is TLS mutual authentication, ...

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Four options to manage stateful apps in the cloud

Stateful applications in the cloud pose an ongoing challenge for development and operations teams. Review four ways to address ...

BPM in cloud evolves to suit line of business, IoT

While on-premises BPM tools have caused a tug of war between lines of business and IT, the cloud helps appease both sides. Here's...

Use LinuxKit to increase container portability

With LinuxKit, Docker continues its push for better container portability. Learn how the tool can help your apps run across ...